Business Analyst / Scrum Master & Quality Assurance

Kilde is a rapidly scaling fintech company with a mission to build the world's leading private wealth management platform. The investments marketplace at Kilde connects accredited investors with high-quality private credit opportunities and is expanding rapidly across Asia. If you thrive in a high-growth, international setting and aspire to make a significant impact on the future of wealth tech, this opportunity is for you. As a versatile Business Analyst at Kilde, you will play a crucial role in championing Quality Assurance and leading Scrum ceremonies. Your responsibilities will involve translating strategic objectives into actionable user stories, ensuring release quality, and fostering an agile culture that caters to both external customers (investors & partners) and internal customers (investment, compliance, and operations teams). Your key responsibilities will include engaging external investors, distribution partners, and internal stakeholders to capture business needs effectively. You will be responsible for translating strategic objectives into clear epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria that maximize customer value. Additionally, you will produce functional specifications, data models, and collaborate with designers on UI/UX wireframes and reporting layouts. In terms of Quality Assurance, you will own the end-to-end QA process, including defining test strategy, test plans, test cases, and ensuring traceability to requirements. You will execute functional, regression, API, and UAT cycles, as well as log and track defects to closure. Maintaining auditable QA documentation that meets regulatory and security standards will also be a key aspect of your role. As a leader in Agile Delivery, you will serve as the Scrum Master for up to two squads, facilitating sprint planning, daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives. You will foster an MVP mindset, remove impediments, and coach the team to achieve higher agile maturity levels with support from the CTO. Tracking delivery metrics such as velocity and burndown and continuously improving processes in a fast-paced scale-up environment will be essential. To excel in this role, you should have at least 8 years of experience in Business Analysis and/or Quality Assurance within an Agile/Scrum setting, with a preference for fintech or wealthtech background. Hands-on experience in eliciting requirements, documenting processes, and writing test cases is required. Strong Scrum Mastery (CSM/PSM) or a strong desire to enter the role with mentorship is essential. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across diverse cultures are a must. Proficiency in SQL and RESTful API testing, along with familiarity with test management tools like JIRA and TestRail, is preferred. A Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent is also necessary. Joining Kilde offers you a chance to make a significant impact and grow with a venture aiming to create US$1 billion in Assets under Management in shareholder value within five years. You will have direct access to experienced founders and a CTO committed to your professional development. The role offers hybrid flexibility, allowing you to work both onsite at the Bangalore tech hub (HSR Layout) and from home. You will also have opportunities for cross-border collaboration, with quarterly team meetups in Bangalore and Singapore. Additionally, a competitive package that includes an attractive salary and ESOP is part of the offering.,